ethicaladjective
uk/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/C2 relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong:
ethical and legal issues
the ethical dilemmas surrounding genetic research
C2 morally right:
ethical practice/trading
a medical procedure that most people believe to be ethical
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- Transplantation of organs from living donors raises ethical issues.
- Europe's varied cultural, political and ethical norms
- a minefield of ethical problems
- It may be feasible to clone human beings, but is it ethical?
- an ethical dilemma
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- moralize
- morally
- norm
- object lesson
- precept
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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Virtue and moral good
ethically
adverb uk/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl.i/us/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl.i/
This action is ethically questionable.